{"id":5052,"date":"2013-10-20T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2013-10-20T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:45:17","slug":"rockies-to-pick-up-option-on-reliever-belisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/20\/rockies-to-pick-up-option-on-reliever-belisle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies to pick up option on reliever Belisle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5053\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5053\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/mattbelisle.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/mattbelisle.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/mattbelisle-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Colorado Rockies want to bring back reliever Matt Belisle for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Belisle has a $4.25 million mutual option for next season. Rockies owner Dick Monfront <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/renck\/ci_24346074\/rockies-strike-out-signing-abreu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">values<\/a> the leadership of Belisle even if his 4.32 ERA over 72 appearances was a step back for 33-year-old right hander.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of simply picking up the option on Belisle the Rockies may try to work out an extension which would lower his salary in 2014 and give the reliever an additional year or two under contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Colorado Rockies want to bring back reliever Matt Belisle for the 2014 season. Currently Belisle has a $4.25 million mutual option for next season. Rockies owner Dick Monfront values the leadership of Belisle even if his 4.32 ERA over 72 appearances was a step back for 33-year-old right hander. Instead of simply picking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[190,504,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-colorado-rockies","9":"tag-matt-belisle","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}